The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
This blog can give rural LHDs several approaches to increasing current capacity or establishing new baseline activities that may help...
Mar 09, 2023
March 10th is the national observance of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, an annual campaign that brings together...
Mar 07, 2023 | Talei Moore, Grace Murtha
September is Sepsis Awareness Month and CDC encourages its partners, patients, and healthcare professionals to share how sepsis can be...
Sep 07, 2022 | Jaclyn Abramson
It is time to reflect on the progress made towards total inclusion of people with disabilities within our communities.
May 14, 2021 | Joseline Raja Vora
An article published in Clinical Infectious Diseases in January 2021 discusses a growing body of evidence that people living with...
Jan 06, 2021 | Julia Zigman
Pregnant people have been largely invisible in efforts to better manage harm to human health from the increasing number of...
Oct 08, 2020 | Guest Author
By Kevin Cevasco, MBA, NACCHO Intern The Trust for Public Land (TPL), in partnership with NACCHO, is identifying ways to introduce...
Dec 10, 2019 | Guest Author
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) released an updated NEHA Body Art Model Code (BAMC). In the time since the...
Oct 30, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
By TraciAnn Hoglind, NACCHO Health and Disability Fellow Visualize this: You are at the hospital for a medical procedure. The doctor...
May 14, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
This blog can give rural LHDs several approaches to increasing current capacity or establishing new baseline activities that may help staff respond to the health impacts of climate change.
March 10th is the national observance of National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, an annual campaign that brings together organizations at every level to highlight pathways to prevention, long-term management, and support for women and girls in the United States. This year marks the 18th annual observance NWGHAAD, and the theme for 2023 is Prevention and Testing at Every Age, Care and...
September is Sepsis Awareness Month and CDC encourages its partners, patients, and healthcare professionals to share how sepsis can be prevented. Get Ahead of Sepsis is a national educational effort that emphasizes the importance of early recognition, timely treatment, reassessment of antibiotic needs, and prevention of infections.
An article published in Clinical Infectious Diseases in January 2021 discusses a growing body of evidence that people living with HIV (PLWH) may be at high risk for severe COVID-19 and examines potential causes and implications.
Pregnant people have been largely invisible in efforts to better manage harm to human health from the increasing number of hotter-than-usual days and nights, and worsening heat waves across U.S. cities and counties. This is a problem.
By Kevin Cevasco, MBA, NACCHO Intern The Trust for Public Land (TPL), in partnership with NACCHO, is identifying ways to introduce place-based arts practices within county and city public health agencies. This practice is referred to as creative placemaking, and it involves public, private, non-profit, and community sectors partnering up to strategically shape the physical […]
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) released an updated NEHA Body Art Model Code (BAMC). In the time since the original code was released more than 20 years ago, body art has become much more accepted, diverse, and popular.
By TraciAnn Hoglind, NACCHO Health and Disability Fellow Visualize this: You are at the hospital for a medical procedure. The doctor comes in, snaps the gloves on, and speaks to you. You don’t hear a thing. The doctor is ready to start the procedure, and you are unable to communicate. The doctor is now examining […]
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